As a new pony settles into the life of Ponyville, we have a peek into her strange life and activities, as she observes and causes some of the problems that happen in the area.
Miss Scry Fortune takes the stage, with an assortment of mysteries and secrets to uphold.
AN: This is a comment driven story, take up a name, a style and become another voice in the head of Scry Fortune.
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Wonder why there isn't much love for this story comment wise... sorry to be a DOWNER but I'd like to hear what some people think of the story, just a word would be nice.
And throw advice to Scry sometime, it be nice to hear some opinions and such, mine is, Greet Pinkie with a SMILE!
But hey, your choice I suppose, for now, I'll just make chapters and rest a little afterwards, seeya!
have a
Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble... best beware, potion-brewer, the pink one is more unpredictable than even you think...
ah... *ahem* h-hello?
I've no intention of incurring the wrath of Miss Pie, so may I say, hello again? I was the one who warned you of her before. Apologies if my choice of wording caused any... discomfort on your part?
...curses, I don't really know what to say. Look, uh... we can't exactly talk like this, not easily at any rate. If I had to compare our situations, it would be akin to a series of letters between us. If you want to ask things of me, please do, either clearly speaking or thinking what you wish to know, but please understand that I cannot answer immediately.
Yours, an aquaintance (and hopefully a friend) from across the divide.
PS. Ask Miss Pie about her promises. I get the feeling they will help you in the future.
First of all, just tell Applejack the truth, she knows when ponies lie. Second of all, maybe you could apologize to Big Mac for his injuries by taking him to dinner. 'Wink Wink'.
I concur, truth at this point would be best, but only say as much as is neccessary if you wish to still keep some things secret.
Back to your brew. I wonder... perhaps it didn't work to amplify Pinkie's talent, at least singularly. You recall the notion of the Elements of Harmony, yes? and that rainbow that enveloped the Nightmare? The mares you were with that night caused it. The elements are no mere idea, and now each of these magical artifacts is tied to one of them. I wonder if you can guess which belongs to whom. They certainly embody their Elements well enough, it shouldn't be a challenge...
But, back to my point. Perhaps the brew amplified the Element of Laughter within Pinkie, thus making her...even more Pinkie than normal? Oh, while we're on the subject of Pinkie, her promises, yes. I did mention them before. Anyone can make a Pinkie Promise, but NO-ONE breaks a Pinkie Promise. Do not try. Please. Might that be beneficial for keeping your secrets, well... secret?
Well well well what do we have here?
hmmmm….
You are an interesting little creature now aren’t you?
Well you want some help so I give you this little titbit for free be careful when you look into the eyes of one of your new acquaintances particularly if they’re angry.
If you want to know which one please answer this simple question.
What can not happen without laughter?
Any future help will require you to answer some form of riddle. I do like my riddles.
Yours sincerely Prophet
P.S I will be extremely annoyed if you get any help from those of us from the beyond to answer my riddles.
Oh! This is so exciting you’re willing to play with me.
Well then let lay down some rules.
Rule 1: As stated before no getting help from other beings from the beyond but help from those in your world is allowed.
Rule 2: To submit your answer to my riddles please write them down, then say them out loud and then burning the item on which you wrote your answer on.
Rule 3: You can have three guesses per riddle.
Rule 4: When you guess the correct answer to a riddle you can either ask a question or ask for help with a problem and will help you to the best of my ability. You may hold your request for as long as you like. The only exception to this rule will be this first riddle as I have already stated your prize if you answer it correctly.
I do apologise for these steps but I have certain rules I must follow myself.
But I can give you a clue to the first riddle. It has very little to do with the Elements of Harmony.
Yours sincerely Prophet
Oh I almost forgot. If you want give up on a riddle just say out loud "I give up Prophet" I I will send you the next riddle.
Yours sincerely Prophet
Well now you came up with some interesting answers here.
All of them have some form of truth and one could be consider the answer to my riddle, but alas none of them are correct in this case.
The answer to this riddle is slaughter or to be more precise the word slaughter as you cannot have slaughter without laughter.
All well maybe you will do better with this next riddle.
What do you own but other use it more?
better luck with this riddle.
Yours sincerely Prophet
A magician eh? Its gotta be Trixie. If you do go a healthy warning for you...she has an ego that rivals rainbow dash at the least so be prepared for things to get interesting.
O my dear Miss Fortune
I do apologise for not getting back to you sooner. But I was, as you put it, giving out information to others despite it likely being false, or if genuine, knowing what I say will not change anything in the slightest.
Now then as you have already stated you answered my riddle correctly so I now owe you one favour which you may call in whenever you want.
I’m not surprised you guest this one correctly it was an easy one. Any way I will not be giving you any more riddles until you request for one.
Now then you asked if you should go see this magician, I believe someone called her Trixie. I would recommend going to the show but not to watch it but rather watch how the crowd reacts and in particular three mares each of which will come onto the magician's stage.
One last thing before I go my dear I have been doing little searching though the world you live and I’m interested in some ingredient and items that are close to where you are if you are willing to get them for me I’m willing to trade for them with some exotic ingredient you could add to your “soups”.
If you’re interested please send me a message in the same manner you answer my riddles.
Yours sincerely Prophet
This is completely unrelated to your current problem, but in the future there will be a zebra named Zecora and everyone will be afraid of her and hide in there homes. When that happens I won't you to go talk to her
And if you miss her she lives in the Everfree Forrest. I want you to do because she shares the same interests as you and may be a good friend to you.
URSA. RUN.
*ahem* sorry, I panicked a little. The beast in question is an Ursa Minor, specifically. Stay back, distract it only if neccessary to get it away from other ponies, and avoid causing injury or pain - I'd hate for its mum, the Ursa Major, to come after you in retaliation. With that in mind, try and consider it an unruly toddler, anything you can do to soothe or calm it is recommended.
Stay safe. Yours, Scholar (well, you have Prophet, so I figured a suitable pseudonym was in order as well).
I Do wish to voice one bit of concern I have.
Knowledge of future events can be a dangerous thing. One could learn of events yet to come, and feel the need to intervene. Such efforts can be disastrous if mishandled. Take that earlier tip about Zecora, for example. The ponies of this town fear her. They fear her because some believe her to be what you are. Granted, those fears are unfounded, but it will result in an incident none the less. At the very least, it will be resolved quickly, and everyone involved will be much better off, but I would recommend avoiding tossing out any brews while the ponies are on a Witch hunt. I tell you this because our method of viewing events in your future is not perfect. We can only see Twilight, her friends, and those closely related to them. We can not, however, see you when we look to the future. I cannot say weather or not this means your presence has any importance, but what it does mean is that you have the ability to change events that we can not see.
In any case I'll stick to the background for the most part. You should only expect to hear from me if somentity else tells you something of what's yet to come, and yet forgets the important details.
Until then,
Machina.
Excellent my dear I’m glad you have accepted my offer but first here is the riddle you requested
The one who makes it sells it.
The one who buys it doesn't use it.
The one who's using it doesn't know he's using it.
What is it?
As for the trade I will need to send you something to make sure that our packages can be sent safely. I’m sure you are quite aware of how fragile or dangerous some ingredient can be when handled incorrectly.
So my dear I have two options for you. I can send you a chest that will be able to send the packages back and forth but will be too heavy to carry around so it will need to be stored somewhere safe were other can’t get to it by accident.
The other option is for me to send you a familiar of mine which could travel around with you. It would require you to take care of it but when you use one of the favour that you have earned I will be able to help in a greater capacity. It would also be a lot smaller than the chest about the size of a small cat.
Once you have decided on which option you want please contact me by our usual method. I will send it to your house with a list of the ingredients/items I am looking for and what I willing to trade for them. The list will be dived into three categories based by their value and will update itself when I require new items or no longer need a certain ingredients/items. I will explain more on how to select the ingredients you want to trade for when you have made your decision.
Yours sincerely Prophet
P.S Riddles will still be required to be answer in the same manner.
Purrr I do believe I have found a new mouse to watch. Some warning be wary of the "Prophet" I have a feeling he seeks to use you. Good idea with Pinkie Pie but take note dear Twilight once her curiosity takes hold on something or pony she doesn't give up until she finds what she seeks.
The Cheshire Cat
p.s. I'm always watching the events you live as they happen.
Ah no need to worry about me I watch meny of the off branches that make up this area of the multiverse sadly most see Twilight and her friends as the main view. It is possibly we all ready have crossed paths how many cats have crossed your path only to vanish when you next blinked? Don't count on Twilight respecting your privacy if you do get her curiosity pined on you as she well become obsessed with finding the answer if she dose go to her friends for help.
Ah, riddles and puzzles, questions and enigmas. Love 'em. Speaking of such, the riddler's riddle from the one called prophet.
I much prefer a different phrasing, same question, same answer, just fits into the cracks of my mind easier. It goes as such.
'The one who makes it never uses it.
The one who buys it hates to see it used.
The one who uses it never sees it.
What is it?'
Fun yeah? Anyway, Wanted to clear something up. Ask a question if you will.
Why are you known as a witch? Where I'm from people are labeled as witches for making a deal with the more... unsavory, of the evil spirits. And frankly, you strike me as being far too intelligent to trade your soul for something silly like immortality or supernatural powers.
Ah, and yet another thing, seeing as the others are giving you names to refer to them by, and it seems quite silly to not to in any case, please call me Daideo should you ever find yourself referring to myself specifically.
Well since everyone else seems to be offering their services in one way or another i suppose i shall as well. I am a bit of a collector of knowledge and artifacts and as such should you come across anything of interest i am willing to offer something in return. For example nightmare moons helmet would an interesting object to obtain and I would be more then willing to trade one of my own artifacts for it. An example of what I would trade for it is an amulet that provides increased healing and protection from magic at night (its effectiveness does wax and wane with the phases of the moon though).
If you obtain these items just give me an idea of what you would wish in return and a courier should appear on your doorstep within 48 hours to make the trade assuming the inter-dimensional courier is prompt. Oh and don't worry as couriers will appear as normal denizens of your world to anyone else but the clients.
With Hope
Professor Killjoy
P.S. I will say that I do currently have a particular interest in books pertaining to Primals and am willing to part with some very...extensive books on potions and/or magic for them.
Well looks like you have things in hand so I well not speak up as much as I have unless I see something the others missed. Before I do 3 gifts to you I give my mouse the first can be fond where you fix meals seek out the drawer that has been marked. Second I made a modification to your travel bags so they well hold a bit more then they normally could. Third if you ever find yourself lost or unsure of the path to take stop sit and look around for a feline he or she well lead you to the right path. Oh and I wrote down the limits for the first gift the note is under it.
The Cheshir Cat.
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(Please can you make sure to check your grammar? And spelling? I'm not trying to be a grammar nazi but I can't really understand your writing, and therefore I can't fit it into the story right)
Once again my dear Miss Fortune you have provided the correct answer to my riddle and thus have earned another favour from yours truly.
I unfortunately have no flying familiars at the moment instead I will be sending my familiar called Smokey he is a chameleon who can travel through shadows, so as long as there is a shadow, he will be able to find you. Also he is excellent at hiding, so when you want him near but not seen just tell him to hide and he will do so. He needs about 1 kilogram of food mostly insects or small animals. He also needs about 2 litres of water for both drinking and bathing. When you want to send some of the ingredients from the list to me, just ask him to take the packages and he will deliver them to me. Please attach a letter with the name of the one item that you require as payment from the same tier as the item sent. It will take him about one day for him to complete the delivery.
While you wait for him here is another riddle.
A pony walks into a party and pours some punch and ice into a cup. He was really thirsty and drank it really fast. Then he left the party. Later he hears that everyone at the party died. There was poison in the punch. How did the pony not die if he drank the same punch?
Your Sincerely Prophet
P.S I have added a fourth tier to the list
(The Following is a basic description of the familiar and a suggestion on how it arrives. From out of the shadows appears a Chameleon about 60cm long and 30cm tall he has three horns that poke out from the top of his head. Small wisps of smoke trail from its body which shifts color to match what is around him. Attached to his back is an old scroll with tattered edges and a red wax seal holding it closed the seal has the imprint of a pentacle star on it. The scroll radiates a small amount of magic and inside the scroll is the following list.
Requested Items Items for Trade
Tier 1 Tier 1
The seeds from 12 Poison Jokes 1 vial of Trolls blood
1 barrel of Sweet Apple Acres cider 1 bottle of spirit wine
1 jar of liquid rainbow 10 Magic Mushrooms
1 bottle of ghost saliva
1 sun stone
Tier 2 Tier 2
I bottle of Timbre Wolf blood/sap 1 vial of Frost Giant blood
A lock of Pinkie Pie’s hair when naturally straight 1 bottled Banshee scream
The eyes of a Cockatrice 1 bottled Sirens song
1 Basilisk tooth
1 vial of Murloc sperm
Tier 3 Tier 3
1 vial Manticore venom 1 vial of elder fire drake’s blood
4 primary teeth of a Cragadile 1 bottled nightmare
1 bottle of water from the Mirror Pool 1 dried lust demon phallus
1 Beholder's central eye
1 celestial feather
Tier 4 Tier 4
The Alicorn Amulet The Corner Stone of Reality
I have purposely not but to much detail as to leave you room to be creative.)
Hmmmm, yes I dare say your explanation satisfied, and I must agree that our definitions of witches are vastly different.
The biggest difference, I think, is probably the difference in priorities. Your ancestors went out of their way to avoid conflict, I assume, to live their lives as peacefully as they could, my worlds witches, for the most part, did not. They instead sought it out to occupy their puppeteers with the blood of others rather than their own. Then there was the difference in retaliation. Burning, stoning, the water test, and the weight pallet in Salem....
Anyway! I was wondering about something else, or two something elses rather. What's your favorite kind of muffin? And might you have heard about a little thing called the Crown of Zudulameir?
Mmmmm, oh yes, one more thing, don't be surprised if you meet Zecora and she knows exactly what you are as soon as you're within a few meters of her. She might not, but the zebra has a way about her that leads me to think that she will know, and probably know enough about you and yours as well to not immediately persecute you.
~ Daideo
(Insert the screaming rage of some horrible thing lost to the void, raging for being denied his voice)
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(Sorry, you posted the comment after I posted the chapter)
(Next one will have you questions, don't worry)
5876848 (Thank you kindly, though it couldn't have been more than a few minutes difference, curse you and your convenient daily updates.)
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(Heh, I thought it would make up for the long wait I had between a couple of chapters, this goes for everybody, if you ask a question or something you really want to know, you needn't worry, I'll make sure to include them in a later chapter)
Crown of Zudulameir? What exactly is that?
Dear Scry Fortune
The couriers looks tend to vary due to them being recruited across multiple dimensions and as such can appear rather mundane or incredibly bizarre*.
As for Primal's... they are essentially a manifested aspect of the world. When a being with an extraordinary amount of power come into contact with an energy that matches their affinity they can...evolve for lack of a better term.
The most common types of Primal's are ones that represent land, sea and sky but others have been known to appear. Primal's are what they represent and have a connection to their aspect that is similar to you and your foreleg and can feel and/or manipulate it as such. It should be noted that Primal's are singular existences in that there is only one per aspect per dimension and once they become a Primal there is no going back or finding replacements till the end of that dimension.
I suppose a pony that became the Primal of the land's appearance might change to where their mane/tail becomes molten stone and have magma running through their veins. While it does sound like they would be grotesque in appearance judging from the one i met briefly many years ago their appearance changes to the point where it looks natural to have magma instead of blood flowing through their body.
Due to the rarity of such beings it is unlikely you will find any such books at your local library so no need to worry about a rabid Twilight chasing after you for missing books hehe.
With Hope
Professor Killjoy
P.S. As a side note the Primal's from the information i have gathered so far retain most of their personalities from before their evolution and can regain a more mortal appearance if they suppress their energies.
P.S.S. Celestia and Luna are not Primal's although they would be considered among those beings of extraordinary power mentioned earlier.
* this is to give the author a bit of creative freedom
5876855 A thing that came out of my brain. Specifically during a stereotypical DnD thing. Basically, it's the headpiece of the armor of an ancient warrior king named, surprise surprise, Zudulamier, who in his Twilight years after successfully ruling a country once torn by civil war for most of his life, decided he wanted to go on an adventure, this adventure takes him far below even the deepest of the dwarven mines, where he and his retinue find a great demon that isn't a balrog, rather it was a beast of fleshy tendrils and numerous fang filled maws that hid in the darkness and struck from a distance. Long story short, Kingy loses his head, his men kill the beasty in a collective fit of rage, then turn the battleground, monster guts included, inside out in their search for the head and helmet. It was never found, but it was traced through the magical properties held in the enchanted metals to another realm beyond the reach of mortal men. Bet you can't guess which realm that is.
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Hell? I don't know.
Well she certainly certainly hasn't heard of that place I'm sure.
5877108 She hasn't heard of hell? Also, try Equis, maybe not her Equis, but one of them. Unless you want to add an enchanted hat from another dimension with unknown magical properties to her shopping list?
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Huh... alright, fair point, different dimension, different things happening.
And I meant she hasn't heard of your hat things before, you know, the crown.
5877120 Ah, yes, the helmet with a crown set into it that's worth about the country it came from, to the country it came from. Yes. Well, I suspect it's either been hiding in some inconspicuous place since it arrived, or one of the alicorn sisters found it and it's currently locked away in one of the castles. Either way...
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It is likely a very powerful, and important artifact, hmm... well, I would say that if such a powerful thing existed, then Celestia would have taken it with her to Caterlot castle, but considering the number of other important things she left there, i don't think it's likely.
5877133 So... random stumbling upon the most valuable artifact ever conceived from another plane of existence in a dilapidated old castle filled with booby traps on a hunt for rare herbs?
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Most likely.
But question, what power did this helmet grant really?
The stories tell of the helm of king Zudulamier. They say that it allows it's wearer to both see into the future and the past as one wishes, to stop the flow of time with but a thought, and to control the minds of men weaker than yourself like one would control a marionette. That's all a bag of yogurt. What the glorified metal hat really does is protect your noggin from most anything short of a death inducer, neck not included, and give your brain function enough of a boost that were you to concentrate hard enough you could make time seem to stop while you think on what to do next. Extremely useful in the middle of the more chaotic battles, with arrows and friendly fire going all over the place.
5877144 See above comment that I forgot to add the reply tag to.
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Hmm, sounds useful, so, basically gives you a superhuman condition body, as well as bullet time perception, awesome.
5877209 Not quite, The helmet's super protection only applies to the head. And while it does give you this 'bullet time perception' it doesn't give you the strength or speed to react to anything you see while you're mind's going a mile a second. Like say, Scry got shot at with a crossbow, hypothetically. She could 'stop' time and see it was coming, but not do anything about it until she restarted her perception of time, granted she'd probably be able to put her hyper protected head in the way of the bolt, but I don't think that same trick would work with a bullet or a magic bolt, specifically a magic bolt with an area of effect.
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Hmm, fair enough I suppose, something like that would be better to trade with.
I see, I was a bit skeptical at first as to weather or not we would even be capable of transferring physical items across the realms. It would appear that the powers that be are fairly lenient in this regard. I am glad for you that the others did not mindlessly make offers that were impossible to keep.
As a side note, I would avoid perusing anything called a Cornerstone of reality. If it's name is anything to go by, it could have disastrous effects in anypony's hooves. Especially the pink one's. She's out of touch with the laws of physics in her natural state, and you saw firsthoof what happens if her awareness of things beyond your plane expands any further. Furthermore, acquiring the Alicorn amulet needed for the trade would place you under very high scrutiny by Twilight and her friends.
Machina.
5878431 Unless, of course, the shopkeeper 'misplaced' it before Trixie had a chance to have it 'misplaced' and the others don't need to know every detail of Scry's life now do they? 'misplaced' amulet that grants near unlimited magical power or not.
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Because limitless magical power at the cost of insanity is not a toy.
5878679 Oh, and I suppose next you'll tell me that Pandora's box is too dangerous to carry my lunch in yeah?
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Actually, aside from Elpis, that box is empty. I'm sure it would make a wonderful lunch box if you were willing to share it with her.
As you wish my dear I can provide you with the location of most of artifacts that lie within Castes of the Two Sisters.
Hmmm. From what I can tell there are a couple of small magical artifact in the treasury, two in the bedroom formally occupied by the solar princess and one in the lunar princess's old room.
I also can detect three artifacts that are of greater value
The first is in the library of the castle; pull on a small brown book with no name on it to open the passage to it. However be warned this item is not benign in nature.
The second will show itself when the arms of the pedestal which held the Elements of Harmony point to the rising sun.
The last can be found in the kitchen cellar; though an old giant ale barrel and into the abandon lair of The Pony of Shadows.
Now the next order of business is your answers to my new riddle, you were very close to the right answer. The answer is that the poison was in the ice cubes and since the pony drank the punch quickly the ice cubes did not get a chance to melt and release the poison into the punch. So unfortunately you were incorrect this time.
I will give you another riddle next time I send you a message.
Yours sincerely Prophet
P.s You might want to go to the library first and read Princess Celestia’s dairy first it has some useful information about getting around the castle. But I ask you to not take it out of the library as another will need that book in the future.
The element bearers are truly .....well...they won't survive outside the paradise that Little Woona and Tia created.
Heh. What do we have here. A story in the making.
Fascinating. Fascinating miss Fortune. I will see how it goes.
Who I am? I am Voidwalker. Why I am here? Your...story interested me.
I will only watch and not interfering much aside from the matter of death.
I am...as you can say a Necromancer...Not those idiots who are hell bend on destroy the world with undead or silly things like that...
I'm telling you this because I have an offer that you may or may not need. It will work at all time as soon as you accept.
I can bring you back from the death. You will be at top condition and all the negative effects will disappear. You will be dropped at random location away from the spot you died in the radius of 1 miles. And no, this will only work if the cause(s) is/are considered unatural (or in other word: caused by any entities be it mortal or immortal and from inside the universe or outside the universe through passive means or active means. You have caught quite a bit of attention in the Void and not all of them want to see how a mortal life plays out due to your...communication with those who are outside and they might heavily influent those that are within to do generic bad thing only on a much more nightmarish scale. While about 80% of them just want to kill you for whatever stupid reason. I have been holding them back for a while but better safe then sorry).
The price will be...What? Oh yeah, I will take them out and make them plead mercy while I rip them apart for the sins they have commited, don't worry...Sorry, ahem! Personal bussiness...
Right. The price will be a dozen poison joke flowers, 1000 bits, 1 small bottle of liquid rainbow and a small lock of your...hair (About as big as a marble). You can give them to me by wrap them up and say "Cold as the Void Eternal" and they will simply pop out of your little world. It equal 1 life each time you offer them and you can have 5 at any given momment.
Other than that...I will remain silient and keep a watch on both you and those...interested.
Here is some music for your ear...